I can't ride off into the sunset without a word or two about the "children's play halls" (jidoukan, å ç«¥é¤¨) that you can find here in Japan. These are indoor / outdoor play places to which you can bring your kid (s)....

This post is just to share photos I've collected of a fun Japanese trend. It's popular (more so than in the US) to decorate the inside of your car with stuffed animals, trinkets etc. It's something that...

If you have a Pinterest account, you most likely know to what "bento" refers. For anyone unfamiliar, they're the little Japanese lunch boxes with food arranged in an artistic or cute design. They've gotten...

Lately our schedule involves a lot of going to parks before lunch. In doing so we often run into seniors playing what I always thought was croquet. However, research prior to writing this indicates that it may be a Japanese...

It's the rainy season here which can make for some boring days inside. But if you can manage to get outside during a break in the rain, you can see some beautiful Japanese countryside. The rain has cleared the air so you...

A few weeks ago I took Cora to a local chain photo studio called Studio Alice. Studio Alice is a popular chain with many, many locations all over Japan (the website is all in Japanese). It was fairly similar to a kid/family...

A few posts back I wrote about how Ota City had only one claim to fame--being where the Subaru car company was founded. I have to make a correction now because that isn't entirely true. If you run Google searches for Ota...